HOWTO: install cheap RTL8180 wireless PCMCIA card in Linux

[Leo Mauler]

You're absolutely correct from an idealistic
viewpoint.

>From the "I've only got $25 to spend on a wireless
card and Hawking Technologies has a $24.99 802.11b
wireless card using the RTL8180 chipset" perspective,
ndiswrapper makes some sense.  :(

One might as well try to argue that one shouldn't use
WINE and WineX in Linux, thereby killing off the Linux
die-hard gamers market and causing many people who use
proprietary Windows-only apps to simply stay with
Windows.  Ndiswrapper at least means that the
underlying OS is Linux, not Windows.

--- Jonathan Hutchins <hutchins at tarcanfel.org> wrote:

> On Saturday 30 October 2004 04:47 pm, Leo Mauler
> wrote:
> 
> > Using ndiswrapper to make a RealTek 8180 wireless
> > card work properly.  Rather than bother with the
> > proprietary drivers for Linux, use this one
> > instead.
> 
> I thought that "ndiswrapper" used the propietary
> drivers relesed by evil companies that don't 
> support Open Source?  I thought the point was to 
> take the card back to the store, tell them it's 
> no good if it doesn't supprot Linux, and buy 
> something else.



	
		
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